Laboratory Facilities for Ecological Research in Tropical Rain Forest

拉塞尔瓦生物站是一片低地热带雨林 地点在哥斯达黎加。 它由本组织拥有和经营 热带研究，一个由30多个美国和拉丁美洲国家组成的联盟， 美国大学，并在生态中发挥着关键作用， 西方科学家的培训和研究 半球 自改进实验室开始以来， 1983年建成，扩建后的生活设施 1986年，拉塞尔瓦搬到了一个更高的高原， 研究的复杂性和专业知识，涉及到一个遥远的 比以往任何时候都更广泛的生物科学家。 生理生态学家， 种群生物学家，群落生态学家，生态系统 研究人员和系统学家已经产生了令人兴奋的 协同增效办法，有望达到新的水平， 了解热带雨林生态系统。 在拉塞尔瓦的合作研究活动也 不可避免地导致对分析设施的需求扩大， 解决热带雨林的基本生物学问题 雨林 该项目将通过以下方式满足部分需求： 为一个4000平方英尺的有空调的研究项目提供资金 实验室允许植物化学和大规模的土壤 分析。 由于拉塞尔瓦与一个越来越大的 热带研究界的比例，该设施将 从极其广泛的地理范围和 学科谱

La Selva Biological Station is a lowland tropical rainforest site in Costa Rica. It is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies, a consortium of over 30 US and Latin American universities, and plays a key role in the ecological training and research of the scientists of the Western hemisphere. Since the initiation of improved laboratory facilities in 1983 and the completion of expanded living accommodations in 1986, La Selva has moved to a higher plateau of research sophistication and expertise that is involving a far wider spectrum of biological scientists than ever before. Current collaborative efforts between physiological ecologists, population biologists, community ecologists, ecosystem researchers and systematists have resulted in exciting synergistic approaches that promise to achieve a new level of understanding about the tropical rainforest ecosystem. Collaborative research activities at La Selva have also inevitably led to an expanded need for analytical facilities to address fundamental biological questions about the tropical rainforest. This project will address part of that need by providing funds for a 4000-square-foot, air-conditioned research laboratory to permit plant chemistry and large-scale soil analyses. Because of La Selva's ties to an increasingly larger proportion of the tropical research community, this facility will benefit users from an exceptionally broad geographic and disciplinary spectrum.